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First, ‘Celibacy, as a personal option made for a higher good, even one completely on the natural level, can result in a fully mature and integrated personality’. Secondly, we must note how we view celibacy in the Church: the wrong disposition of the soul is ‘celibacy is imposed from outside...

This summer, seminarians Steven Bertonazzi, John March, Christopher Myers and Carlo Santa Teresa are in Omaha, Nebraska, attending the Institute for Priestly Formation. Chris Myers offers the following reflection on their experience thus far: As we four reach our fourth week here in Nebraska, I have had a great chance...

The premier event our Diocese has for vocations is the iRace4Vocations 5K Walk/Run, which took place this year at Williamstown High School. It was a great experience to be surrounded by the people of the Diocese and to see all the support offered towards seminarians. It also continued the awareness...

This past Saturday, the Church celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to three letter shepherd children. To these unassuming little shepherds, Mary, whose month we celebrate, asked them to be messengers of peace to a world that was ravaged with war, a world...

As the Easter season continues on, one theme that I have been reflecting on quite a bit is the idea of hope. As a result of Jesus dying and rising from the dead, all of us have hope for the future. No matter how bad things may seem here on...

April 25, 2017 Posted By: Father Joshua NevittJoshua Nevitt5KComments are off for this post

April 25 has always been my favorite date of the year. Not because it is the latest date that Easter can be, nor because it is mentioned as the “perfect date” in the movie “Miss Congeniality” (“Its not too hot, not too cold; all you need is a light jacket”),...

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” – John 15:16 I think one could make an...

This past Saturday we celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation. While I was at Mass, the celebrant delivered a great homily to the congregation, but I would like to highlight two words that this priest spoke about. The two repetitive words this priest repeated again and again were “presence” and...

Well, I don’t know about you but it is hard for me to believe that we are already half way through the season of Lent. Lent is the forty days that the Church journeys through together, partaking in the three famous attributes of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Each year we...